'They know not what they do' is a universal truth.

'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love.

‘All you have to do is wait,’ I explained. ‘Sit tight and wait for the right moment, not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things… If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full, they’re too interested in themselves…

‘common sense’ is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of ghosts from the past.

‘Good’ refers to our original nature before our parents were born. Before anything develops within us, we possess this goodness. ‘Good’ means natural.

‘Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

‘official psychotherapy’ lacks integrity and becomes the obedient tool of armies, bureaucracies, churches, corporations, and all agencies that require individual brainwashing… the therapist who is really interested in helping the individual is forced into social criticism.

‘Perseverance furthers,’ for it is perseverance that make the difference between seduction and courtship.

‘Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.’ ‘Tom, I am not everybody.’

‘What can I do to help thee?’ he asked. ‘Believe there is a tomorrow.’

‘Without traveling’ means to know without depending on previous or external experience… ‘without trying’ means to focus the spirit on the tranquility that excels at making things happen.

‘You can’t fool all the people all the time,’ but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

"God will not look you over for medals, diplomas, or degrees – but for scars."

"I tell so many lies I have to write them down and keep them in the lie box so I can keep them straight."

“ 'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.' ”

“ ‘Mind’ is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back… ”

“ ‘Mind’ is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back… ”

“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.”

“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. ”

“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.”